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"... if you take the red pill you stay in wonderland and I´ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes..."
Morpheus - Matrix
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Seminar – Journal, article, impact factor
The first moment of the course this week was a Seminar to discuss the journal and the article we have previous chosen and discuss it in small groups. In the same Seminar we were also asked to choose the journal and the article we thought were the most interesting ones.
I liked the structure of the seminar because it made me realize that I understand the concept of impact factor (if) and that it takes time to find and interesting and high quality article. Also that the field of Media Management is based on constant changes and take some time for articles to get a high (if), which means that it might be difficult sometimes to evaluate an article based only on its (if).
Lecture – Theory of Knowledge
The second moment of the course was a Lecture about Theory of Knowledge, based mainly on the book “The Problems of Philosophy” from Bertrand Russell. During the lecture some concepts from the book started making sense. I believe that my main learning was of how we, as master students about to write a thesis, need to be conscious of how our work after published can or not end up influencing others. Moreover the lecture also made me think of the roles a student can choose as a learner and/or as a knowledge producer.
Seminar – Theory of Knowledge
The third moment of the course was a seminar about Theory of Knowledge in which we were divided in small groups to discuss the concepts of Russell’s book written in the previous blog post.
It was very good to better understand the concepts and to check if the interpretation I did was the same as the others. Having the wrap up discussion with the whole class, after discussing it in small groups, was very nice as well because it complemented the concepts.
An interesting discussion emerged while discussing proposition and statement of fact: the concept and the different types of verbal expressions. The discussion of the perception of the world being flat or not was also interesting. It clarified to me that propositions and statement of fact are synonyms and that both means that any proposition can be taken into consideration and experimented, and by its results be taken as truth.
To close the posts from Theme 1 a worth watching video of Matrix in which Morpheus questions Neo about his feelings, his beliefs, his perception of the world, knowledge and truth. And just like Neo, choosing to follow Alice steps seems the most reasonable thing to do, don’t you think?
Fernanda, if u really enjoy Russell's book, I can recommend u to read Plato, at least one of his dialogues) They are much simplier and force your mind to think =)
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ReplyDeleteI kind of like when the reading makes you rethink the concepts and beliefs you already have... to me it is kind of a deconstruction logic. But with Russel's book I think it was too much for a short period of reading... sometimes it was too hard to follow.
Which of Plato text, or book you could indicate to me? As you studied Philosophy I´m pretty much sure you will come up with a very interesting one ;)
I can recommend you to start with of of his dialogues! For example, Symposium can be good starting point)
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